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Steve Aylett

すてぃーゔ・えいれっと

Sutīvu Eiretto

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1967-01-01 （Bromley）
Nationality
British
Languages
English
Residence History
United Kingdom

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Comic book writer, Performer
Active Years
1994-2024
Influenced By
Voltaire, Thomas Love Peacock, William Gibson, William S. Burroughs, Raymond Chandler
Influenced
Bizarro fiction movement

Awards

Philip K. Dick Award
1998
Work: Slaughtermatic
Result: shortlist
Jack Trevor Story Award
2006
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Slaughtermatic

1997 Satirical science fiction

A cyber-noir tale set in the chaotic city of Beerlight.

CrimeNoirSurrealism

Lint

2005 Metafiction

Satirical biography of the fictional author Jeff Lint.

SatireMetafictionAuthorship
Adaptations
  • [Movie] Lint: The Movie (2011)

Bibliography

  • The Crime Studio (1994)
  • Bigot Hall (1995)
  • Slaughtermatic (1997)
  • The Inflatable Volunteer (1999)
  • Atom (2000)
  • Shamanspace (2001)
  • Only an Alligator (2001)
  • The Velocity Gospel (2002)
  • Dummyland (2002)
  • Karloff's Circus (2004)
  • Lint (2005)
  • The Complete Accomplice (2010)
  • Novahead (2011)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Baroque densityHigh-speed finely crafted detailSurreal and satirical
Recurring Motifs
Beerlight's crime-ridden metropolisAccomplice's demonic suburbFictional authors

Health

  • Synesthesia
    生涯
    Books appear in his brain as a visual 'glob'.
  • Asperger syndrome
    生涯
    Self-disclosed.

Legacy

Known for satirical SF, fantasy, and slipstream; associated with Bizarro fiction; noted for transmedial works.

In Popular Culture

  • Name-checked in My Chemical Romance's album

Trivia

  • Left school at 17.
  • Synesthete.
  • Has Asperger syndrome.